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Audio-video transcriptions.
Schizoid personality: YouTube videos and comments
There is an evolutionary purpose, but it is in the past, not the future. In tribal days your culture would have only a couple hundred people in it, so one schizoid, who sees the culture from the outside can change it. Nowadays we have a global culture, and those who would change it are labeled “disordered”. In the past the reclusive schizoid would be the shaman or the wise hermit, now we’re just seen as crazy recluses. Read the full page
Jetta – An autistic kid talks about the universe and the end of time
Chris: If you could share one message with the whole entire world, what would you say?
Jetta: The universe is about the end.
Chris: Why do you want people to know that?
Jetta: Because someday it will end in our face. Read the full page
Andrew McIntosh – On the Drive Towards Death and the Drive Away From Death (Ineffectual Whinging)
Just throwing a hodge podge of ideas I’ve read about and find interesting together in the hopes of coming up with a synthesis that doesn’t mean much in the end anyway. It’s not like I believe there are such things as “Death Drives” and “the Will” and all that, they’re more metaphorical for what is probably more mundane, neurobiological stuff going on in our stupid brains. Read the full page
Andrew McIntosh – Earth of the Scum (Ineffectual Whinging)
Isn’t it time we had World War Three? Read the full page
Andrew McIntosh – The Point of Pointlessness (Ineffectual Whinging)
[…] that whole insane “get up and go” mentality, starting with the obscenity of the work ethic, squirming as it did like soft stool out of the arsehole of Christianity, condemning us to mindless labour and activity simply for its own sake. Work for its own sake – what kind of fucking numpty thought that was a good idea? Read the full page
Andrew McIntosh – On Conspiracy Theories (Ineffectual Whinging)
One of the main reason for getting into conspiracy theories is to get the illusion that by doing so, you’re exercising some kind of agency in the world. Read the full page
Andrew McIntosh – On Leaving Scenes (Ineffectual Whinging)
But that’s the thing: with scenes, it’s the ideals first, not the people. People become mere faculties for the ideals, which is bizarre because all ideals only come from people. But scenes thus tend to act as if the ideals they live by and promote are like divine commandments handed down from on high. Read the full page
Dario Fabbri – The Cultural Element in Geopolitics
XII Festa Scienza Filosofia – Dario Fabbri – 2023/04/22 – The Cultural Element in Geopolitics – How History and Customs Influence the Trajectory of Powers. Continue reading
Philip Goff – Breaking Through the Consciousness Stalemate – The Institute of Art and Ideas
But there’s an important difference here: in all other cases we postulate unobservables to explain what we can observe. In the unique case of consciousness the thing we are trying to explain is unobservable. Read the full page
Umberto Galimberti – Interviews and conferences (excerpts)
Schopenhauer is considered a pessimist, of course: every time you don’t praise or exalt “the individual”, you are pessimistic, of course, right?… … Even poor Leopardi is pessimistic, isn’t he? Those who say “pessimism”… I’m like: are you looking at reality, goddammit, or do you really not want to see it? Read the full page
I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Sometimes the thought is closer to the truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can’t fake a thought. Continue reading
When you’re suffering, that’s when you’re most real. Read the full page
Massimo Recalcati – Perversion
The Clinical Lesson of Jacques Lacan: Madness, Neurosis and Perversion (third session). IRPA, Associazione Accademia Pons, Jonas Onlus, Order of Psychologists of Lombardy, Enap Continue reading
Horace and Pete – How do you find love?
A sad girl after a bad online date, another girl, a guy, Leon, and an old man at the bar. Continue reading
The Crazy Woman Next Door – Conversation with Alda Merini
Unfortunately, the soul, which by the way is what then writes and survives […], is the part that flies over matter and is the one that’s the most attentive and the most painful: namely, seeing the deterioration of the body, this soul distress itself, it… above all, it loses its way. Continue reading
You’d be surprised by how many people aspire to be completely normal. We’re a race apart. You have to fight to the teeth for not end up being one of them. Read the full page
Carmelo Bene – Four Moments on the Whole Nothing – 4°: Art
(Miserable) artists and relative (miserable) consumers. Read the full page
Carmelo Bene – Four Moments on the Whole Nothing – 3°: Eros
Poor, poor… Poor lovers! Read the full page
Waking Life – Richard Linklater
A thousand years is but an instant. Read the full page
Sometimes it feels like they just… they just want to rip you open. So I just shut up and let ’em do their thing. I close my eyes. I don’t want to see the hate in their faces. Continue reading
The Annunciation – András Jeles
We exist, and yet we do not exist. Read the full page
Erich Fromm – Normal people are the sickest
I think it’s a common fiction that people share, that the modern person is happy. Read the full page
Our Lady of the Turks – Carmelo Bene
He who has never thought about death is perhaps immortal. This is how you can see the Virgin Mary. Read the full page
The Fire Within (Le feu follet / Fuoco fatuo) – Louis Malle
– You still have feelings of anxiety? Continue reading
Who Works Is Lost (Chi lavora è perduto) – Tinto Brass
The world be damned, breaking your back for a slice of bread. Damned be the world, either you die of hunger or you die or boredom. Continue reading
Time Stood Still – Ermanno Olmi
People’s feelings have changed. Read the full page